Duan Yongping is the reclusive billionaire who founded Oppo and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world's ...

How Oppo toppled Apple in China

Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn't have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now.

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Keyboards such as the Typo2, pictured, make it easier to type on an iPhone.

How to type faster on an iPhone

New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman reveals how she knocks out 1000-word features on her small-screen iPhone.

This render shows the same hypothetical phone in various colours.

3D camera tipped for new iPhone

Apple may be considering a camera designed for authentication and augmented reality for its next high-end iPhone, say reports.

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Apple sold 78.29 million iPhones in its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, up from 74.78 million a year earlier.

Apple market value surges

Shares in Apple leapt more than 6 per cent on its latest results, with at least 12 brokerages lifting their price targets.

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A customer inspects two Apple Inc. iPhone 7 smartphones at the Apple Store inside the IAPM shopping mall in Shanghai, ...

Ten years of the iPhone

When Apple introduced the iPhone 10 years ago, skeptics pounced. But today, we couldn't imagine a world without them.